Software Architect, Lifecycle Management
Okta · Posted Sep 21
Cloud-based identity and access management solutions for workforce and customer security
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About the role
Okta is an enterprise grade identity management platform, built from the ground up in the cloud, providing directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. The Onboarding and Lifecycle Management (LCM) Platform team builds and manages services for importing, syncing and provisioning identities and access policies — users, groups, roles, entitlements — that let customers link and enhance their business processes with Okta's identity management product. This role is to build, design solutions, and maintain the platform for scale, with an experienced Software Architect leading architectural design, technical strategy, and complex initiatives across 20+ engineers.
What you will do
- Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
- Lead the architectural design and implementation of new features and services, with a focus on scalability, performance, and security.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define the technical strategy and lead the prototyping of software components.
- Directly oversee and coordinate complex technical initiatives involving 20+ engineers, ensuring alignment across disparate sub-teams
- Drive a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement, with a focus on robust testing, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies in identity, security, and distributed systems.
- Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
- 15+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experience with Hibernate and Spring Boot
- A deep understanding of design patterns, scalability patterns, security engineering, and object-oriented principles.
- 4+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
- Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologies: caching, stream processing, resilient architectures.
- Experience working with relational databases, ideally MySQL, PostgreSQL or GraphDB
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work across functions, distributed teams.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers
- B.E. Computer Science or equivalent
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading.
- Experience with security best practices and threat modeling
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies: OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM
Benefits and support
- Supporting Your Well-Being
- Driving Social Impact
- Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
- Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.
About Okta
Okta is a leading independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions that securely connect people and technologies to the right applications. The company powers both Workforce Identity and Customer Identity platforms, allowing organizations to securely manage user access and navigate modern challenges like agentic AI security.
- Industry
- Enterprise Software
- Company size
- 7500+ employees
- Founded
- 2009
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $228M raised
- 2010-02-01Series A$10M
- 2011-08-01Series B$16.5M
- 2012-12-01Series C$25M
- 2013-09-01Series D$27M
- 2014-06-01Series E$75M
- 2015-09-01Series F$75M
- 2018-02-21Post IPO Debt$300M
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Legal Officer
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